In my own life I try to hold some of the skeptical views of what technology is doing to my attention and time. I am striving to enact a discipline and focus of

In my own life I try to hold some of the skeptical views of what technology is doing to my attention and time. I am striving to enact a discipline and focus of attention that sounds very much like the Askesis he describes. Sometimes it works, and then I'm back here. However I am concerned about the conservatism and religious overtones of the anti-technology reactionaries. To me (and a large and growing demographic) modern major religions are at best irrelevant, or morally bankrupt and malignant. Its a shame to because we lost some deeper dimensions of human experience this way. The core teaching of Buddhism is the middle path: neither absolute asceticism nor hedonism. I also like how John Vervaeke puts it: "Neither utopia, nor nostalgia" (is the path to wisdom, presumably).